This is an interactive digital installation in which viewers can walk around freely in a space that completely surrounds them with projections on all sides.A Japanese mythical bird, the Yatagarasu (three-legged crow), is rendered in light as it flies around the space, leaving trails of light in its path and creating spatial calligraphy. The crows chase one another and in turn become chased themselves. When the chased crows crash into one another, they scatter, turning into flowers.The crows are also aware of the viewers and attempt to fly around them, but when they crash into a viewer, they scatter, turning into flowers in the same way.The artwork’s center is gradually aligned to the position of the viewers standing in the installation. If all viewers gather in one place, the border between the walls and floor dissolves, the real physical space disappears, and the viewers become immersed in the artwork. The lines that the crows trace then appears to be drawn three-dimensionally within the space, and the boundary between the bodies of the viewers and the work disappears.The installation is rendered in real time by a computer program, it is neither a prerecorded animation nor on loop. The positions of the viewers, their interactions, and their behavior in the installation cause continuous change in the artwork.

teamLab (f. 2001) is an international art collective, an interdisciplinary group of various specialists such as artists, programmers, engineers, CG animators, mathematicians and architects whose collaborative practice seeks to navigate the confluence of art, science, technology, and the natural world.

teamLab aims to explore the relationship between the self and the world and new perceptions through art. In order to understand the world around them, people separate it into independent entities with perceived boundaries between them. teamLab seeks to transcend these boundaries in our perception of the world, of the relationship between the self and the world, and of the continuity of time. Everything exists in a long, fragile yet miraculous, borderless continuity of life.

teamLab’s works are in the permanent collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide; Asian Art Museum, San Francisco; Asia Society Museum, New York; Borusan Contemporary Art Collection, Istanbul; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; and Amos Rex, Helsinki.